- Joined
- Apr 11, 2021
- Messages
- 8
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z490 VISION D
- CPU
- i7-11700K
- Graphics
- RX 550
- Mac
Sound works perfectly for me. Thanks to Casey I am using his EFI almost one to one. But under Windows 10 (dual boot Mac/Win) the Window's sound intermittently breaks down till I power cycle windows. That seemed to happen after I loaded Gigabyte's Z490 Vision D audio drivers - the default windows ones seemed ok. I know I shouldn't fiddle if it worksHi, I also have a 11700K cpu but downgraded to another 10700K because I was having sound issues with the RKL and AMD RX580. Do you have any issues with this? Can you share your EFI as well for me to try.
I rarely use the inbuilt audio (though I tested it and all ok), rather I use an external 18ch @48KHz 24bit USB audio interface and audio over the monitor's DisplayPort or HDMI port. I also tested 64/64 ch AVB network audio over GigE between this hack and my M1 Mac mini - stable audio - amazed it worked with the hack flawlessly. I also tested it with Logic Pro X and Dolby Atmos Renderer, ie: 130 ch audio bridge between Logic and Dolby then out to 7.1.4 speakers via USB, also great. Compared with the M1 Mac mini, this i7-11900K could handle almost 70% more tracks before System Overload. I did find this CPU/MB combo seems to have some of the best "low latency" processing (at least under macOS), especially important for audio - maybe gaming ? My BIOS has XMP enabled, but MCE disabled and CPU Profile @ Default ie. below Gigabytes stock default MB settings. Enabling MCE or Game/Advanced Profile seems to slow down this system ???
Interestingly I saw this CPU has very high "stock" dual-core CPU clock > 5.1GHz - I get a whooping 1,810 single core score in Geekbench 5 and it's reallocated to different cores rather than just Core 6 & 7 which the BIOS appears to set ?
Another point I found is the whole computer started running strange at times - mostly slower and fast-slow performance after adjusting bits in the BIOS then returning them to default - BUT I learnt the F20 BIOS is very WIP - maybe the last one now that 12th gen is a few months away ? So always "Clear CMOS", "Load defaults", set XMP, reboot then adjust whatever. I Cleared CMOS about 50-80 times till I was sure it was the BIOS and not me.
J.